Hidden Treasures 3: Works by 57 Faculty and Staff of Phillips Exeter Academy
Monday, November 5, 2012 - Saturday, December 15, 2012
"Hidden Treasures 3: Works by 57 Faculty and Staff of Phillips Exeter Academy" From Monday, November 5 through Saturday, December 15, the Lamont Gallery at Phillips Exeter Academy will present Hidden Treasures 3: Works by Phillips Exeter Academy's Faculty and Staff. This exhibit will feature a variety of artistic works: photographs, paintings, ceramics, drawings, quilting, flower arrangements, collage, woodworking, costume design, architectural models, embroidery, sculpture, clay, stained glass, digital and film works, and jewelry by 57 Academy employees. The artists' opening reception will be held on Friday, November 9, from 6:30–8:00 p.m. The Lamont Gallery is located in the Frederick R. Mayer Art Center on Tan Lane. The exhibit is free and open to the public. |
 Stacy L. Durand - Powerlines: Exeter to Newburyport, Acrylic, collage, and graphite on panel 2012 Here is a sampling of some of the artists' statements, and the inspirations and the creative processes of our talented staff and faculty members: Stacey L. Durand, program coordinator of Summer School says, "My work has been very much influenced by the places I have lived and the communities I have called home. I am a New Hampshire native, but for nearly 10 years I lived in Beverly, MA. While there I spent many days walking around town and exploring this Seacoast community. I started to fall in love with the way the buildings in this area relate to each other; the houses on some streets are packed together tightly, the power lines cross the sky and zigzag over the streets to connect the buildings, the tilted telephone poles lean into the warped houses. During the 10 years I resided in Beverly, I lived in nine different apartments. Each of those homes brought me into a new area where every day I was able to witness the tight communities, and quirkiness of each neighborhood firsthand. It was during this time that I started to become interested in these environments and started to use them as the subject of my work. I have since returned to New Hampshire and have continued to seek out these tightly packed Seacoast neighborhoods. "Taking photographs and collecting images of my environment is the start of my art-making process as well as the foundation and inspiration of my work. I explore the streets looking for interesting compositions and try to find overly exaggerated examples of the types of buildings and neighborhoods that I find compelling. I then layer and overlap images I have taken to find connections between the buildings that do not exist in the real world. These newly created collaged landscapes become slightly abstracted compositions. Within this process of removing buildings and neighborhoods from their original context and combining them with different environments, I create new connections, relationships and ultimately new communities. "I continue my process by painting into these collages on wooden panels that are mounted onto wooden frames. I then enhance and alter these collages through many layers of acrylic paint, image transfers and graphite. I continue to wrap the image from the front of my paintings onto the sides of the piece, giving the impression that the landscape extends beyond what is created on the front surface of the painting. By using this technique, I want my paintings to be viewed much more like an object rather than a traditional painting hung on the wall, enabling the viewer to interpret my newly created communities with some familiarity and personal connection to their own community." Tom Seidenberg, math instructor, says, "I have always loved photography, and digital photography has renewed and strengthened this love. My eye is attracted to color and pattern." |
Tom D. "Tom" Seidenberg - Green Chile House, Digital photography 2011 Beverly A. Schneider, executive assistant to the director of Institutional Advancement, says a daily ritual of communing with nature brought her to a place of creativity and rejuvenation. "Walking the beach is my favorite year-round activity and a great form of exercise. Very soothing for the soul as well! While sea glass hunting, I also began picking up driftwood to make decorative pieces for myself and others. My trees are created with genuine driftwood from Seabrook Beach, NH. No wood is manipulated (except the tree trunk) and is used as found on the beach, including the sand! Each tree is uniquely one of a kind . . . special orders accepted." The exhibit's artists are: Donna L. Archambault, Support Services Administrator, Information Technology Services |
 Beverly A. Schneider - Beauty on the Beach, Driftwood 2012
Donna M. Hilton, Physics Technician, Science Department |
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Anne E. Pleatsikas, Facilities Designer/Planner, Facilities Management For more information contact Sara Zela at 603-777-3461. Gallery hours are: Monday 1-5 p.m., Tuesday-Saturday 9 a.m.-5 p.m.; closed Sundays and school holidays. The Gallery will be closed November 19 through December 2, 2012, in observance of the Thanksgiving break. For more information, contact the Lamont Gallery at 603-777-3461. For a complete list of upcoming musical and community events, please visit our PEA Community Calendar . You may also call the PEA public events line at 603-777-4309, or visit the PEA website . Directions to the Academy are available at 603-777-4330. |